I often think of politics as a circle. Left and right eventually come around to meet eachother. I don’t have a full map of what this looks like, but I think that the moderate left and moderate right are essentially in the same camp, and that more extremist left and right views have a number of places of overlap (although, obviously, not complete overlap).

Thinking of politics as insiders and outsiders makes sense to me, but I think there’s a third dimension that’s missing from this analogy.

I also sometimes think of the world as a Venn Diagram with pretty much no commonality (counter to my first paragraph). As in, are we ever going to be able to get behind big projects? Sometimes I feel like varying viewpoints can be so opposite as to not leave room for any common action.